• In metaphysics, Plato's beard is a paradoxical argument dubbed by Willard Van Orman Quine in his 1948 paper "On What There Is". The phrase came to be...
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  • and logic theoryPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Plato's beard – Example of a paradoxical argument Revision theory Self-refuting idea –...
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    serial 4 of Sapphire & Steel Extensional and intensional definitions Plato's beard The Man Who Sold the World (song), a song by David Bowie Colombo, John...
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    object". He also, in his famous essay On What There is, coined the term "Plato's beard" to refer to the problem of empty names: Suppose now that two philosophers...
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    in Plato's Symposium, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 76 (1945), pp. 85–103. Strauss, Leo. On Plato's Symposium...
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  • Meinong's jungle Meta-ontology Nonexistent objects Ontological commitment Plato's beard Round square copula W. V. O. Quine, "On What There Is", The Review of...
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  • paradox Barbershop Catch-22 Chicken or the egg Drinker Entailment Lottery Plato's beard Raven Ross's Unexpected hanging "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"...
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    Bitwise NOT Contraposition Cyclic negation Negation as failure NOT gate Plato's beard Square of opposition Weisstein, Eric W. "Negation". mathworld.wolfram...
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    A beard is the hair that grows on the jaw, chin, upper lip, lower lip, cheeks, and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually pubescent...
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  • Noneism, the philosophical belief that there are things that do not exist Plato's beard Jacquette, Dale (1996). "On Defoliating Meinong's Jungle". Axiomathes...
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